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pleomorphic adenoma
- Most common tumor
- painless, movable mass
- benign high rate of recurrence
Warthin's tumor
- benign
- heterotropic salivary gland tissue trapped in a lymph node
- surrounded by lymphatic tissue
Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma
- most common malignant salivary tumor
Achlasia
loss of myenteric (Auerbach's) plexus

- inc risk of esophageal carcinoma

- High LES opening pressure = esophageal dymotility involving low pressure proximal to LES is SCLERODERMA
Esophageal varice
- painless bleeding in lower 1/3 of esophagus in submucosla veins
Mallory-Weiss syndrome
-lacerations at the GE jxn due to severe vomiting.
- Painful
Boerhaav syndrome
transmural esophageal rupture due to violent retching
GERD
Glandular METAPLASIA

- replacement of nonkeritonized stratified squamouse epithelium w/
- intestinal columnar epithelium
Celiac sprue antibodies
- antbodies to
- GLIADIN
- TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE

- inc risk of T-cell lymphoma
Curling's ulcer

Cushing ulcers
ACUTE GASTRITIS
Curlings = dec volume -> sloughing of mucosa due to burns

Cushing -> inc vagal stimulation -> inc ACh -> inc H+ production
Type A chonic gatritis
- nonerosive

- fundus/body
- destruciton of parietal cells
- assoc. w autoimmune disorders
Type B chronic gastritis
- antrum
- most common type

- caused by H. pylori

- inc risk of MALT lymphoma
Menetrier's diseaes
- Gastric hypertrophy

- protein loss (hypoalbuminemia and edema)

- parietal cell atrophy and inc mucous cells
- precancerous

- rugae of stomach are so hypertrophied that they look like barin/gyri
Stomach Cancer
- type A blood

Intestinal type = known risk factors
diffuse type = no known risk; signet ring
Duodenal ulcers
- pain decreases when eating

- never cancerous
Crohn's
- disorderd response to intestinal bacteria
- skip lesions and rectal sparing
- TRANSMURAL inflammation

- Cobblestone mucosa, creeping FAT bowel thickening ("string sign")
- fissures and fistulas
- Noncaseating granulomas

tx = corticosteroids, infliximab (Ab TNF)
UC
- Autoimmune
- continuous colonic lesions, always w/ RECTAL involvement
- MUCOSAL and SUBMUCOSAL inflmmation
- friable mucosal pseudopolyps w/ freely hanging mesentery
- loss of HAUSTRA -> "LEAD PIPE"

- Crypt abscesses and ulcers, bleeding, NO GRANULOMAS
- toxic megacolon and colorectal carcinoma

- bloody diarrhea
- primary scleroisng cholangitis

tx: ASA (sulfasalzaine); 6-mercaptopurine; infliximab
- colonectomy cures
- SMOKING MAY PREVENT DISEASE
Diverticulum
- allow bacterial overgrowth -> B12 and bile salt deficiency

- false: only mucosa and submucosa outpouch. occur where vasa recta perforate muscularis externa
Diverticulosis
- common in older population
-inc intraluminal pressure and weakness of abdominal wall.
- Assoc. w/ low-fiber diets
- usually is sigmoid

- vague discomfort of painless rectal bleeding
Diverticulitis
= LLQ appendicitis
- colovesicle fistula = pneumaturia

- perforate = peritonitis, abscess formation, bowel stenosis
Hirschsprung's disease
- failure of neural crest cell migration

- lack of ganglion cells/enteric nervous plexuses (Auerbach's and Meissner's plexuses)

- Risk increases w/ Down Syndrome
- failure to pass meconium
Duodenal atresia
- adhesion distal to common bile duct = BILIOUS VOMITING w/ proximal stomach distention
- "Double Bubble"

- due to failure of recanalization of small bowel

- assoc. w/ DOWN SYNDROME
Meconium ileus
- CF

- meconium plug obstructs intestine, preventing stool passage at birth
Necrotizing enterocolitis
- necrosis of intestinal mucosa and possible perforation

- colon is usually involved

- more common in preemies = dec immunity
Ischemic colitis
- reduction in intestinal blood flow causes ischemia

- pain after eating -> weight loss
- commonly occur at splenic flexure and distal colon
Angiodysplasia
- tortuous dilation of vessels -> bleeding (anemia)

- found in cecum, terminal ileum, and ascending colon
- confirmed by angiography

- Assoc. w/ vWB disease and calcific aortic stenosis
malignant risk in colonic polyps
- increase size
- villous histology
- inc epithelial dysplasia
Hyperplastic polyp
- most common non-neoplastic polyp
Juvenile polyp
- most sporadic lesions in children < 5 yrs of age. 80% in rectum
- if single, no malignant potential

- juvenile polyposis syndrome
- multiple juvenile polyps in GI tract, inc. risk of adenocarcinoma
Peutz-Jeghers
AD
- multiple nonmalignant hamartomas thru/out GI tract
- Assoc w/ inc risk of CRC and other visceral malignancies

Histo = red and purple
FAP
- AD
- APC gene on chromosome 5q
- two-hit hypothesis
- 100% to CRC
- left-sided = circumferential - obstruction)
Gardner's syndrome
AD

FAP + osseous and soft tissue tumors (osteoma, thyroid cancer, fibromas)

- retinal hyperplasia
Turcot's syndrome
-AR

FAP + malignant CNS tumor
HNPCC/Lynch
- AD
- mutation of DNA mismatch repair genes
~80% progress to CRC
- Proximal colon is always involved -> right-sided (exophytic-grows outward and therefore bleeds)
Risk factors of colorectal carcinom
- IBD
- Strep bovis
- tobacco
- large villous adenomas
- juvenile polyposis syndrome
- Peutz-jeghers
Presentation of distal and proximal colon cancer
DIstal Colon = obstruction, colicky pain, hematochezia

Proximal Colon = dull pain, iron def, anemia, fatigue
Tumor marke of CRC
CEA tumor marker
Molecular pathogenesis of CRC
1. APC/Beta-catenin

loss of APC (5q) -> KRAS -> loss of p53

2.) mircosatellite

DNA mismatch repair gene mutations -> sporatdic and HNPCC syndrome
- mutations accumulate
Micro and macronodular insult
Micronodular = < 3mm; metabolic insult (alcohol, hemochromatosis, Wilson's)

Macronodular = > 3mm; postinfxous or drug-induced hepatitis
- inc risk of HCC
Reye's syndrome
- fatty liver (microvesicular fatty change)
- hypoglycemia, coma

Aspirin metabolites dec beta-oxidation by reversible inhibition of mitochondrial enzyme
Alcoholic hepatitis
- Mallory bodies
Increase HCC factors
- Hepatitis B and C
- Wilson's disease
- Hemochromatosis
- alpha-1-antitrypsin def
- alcoholic cirrhosis
- carcinogens (aflatoxin in peanuts)

- JAUNDICE, ASCITES, POLYCYTHEMIA, and hypoglycemia
- inc AFP
- can have budd-chiari syndrome
Cavernous hemangioma
- MC benign tumor
- cavernous blood filled sinuses
Hyperbilirubinemia; Urine bilirubin-direct; Urine urobilinogen-formed in GI

Hepatocellular
Obstructive
Hemolytic
Hepatocellular jaundice
- conj/unconj hyperbilirubinemia
- urine bilirubin- direct = increase
- urine urobilinogen (formed in GI) = Normal/decrease

Obstructive jaundince
- Hyperbilirubinemia = conjugated
- urine bilirubin = increase
- urine urobilinogen = decrease (none entering GI)

Hemolytic jaundice
hyperbilirubinemia = unconjugated
urine bilirubin-direct = absent (acholuria)
Urine Uroblinogen = increase
Gilbert's
- mildly dec UDP-glucuronyl transferase or decrease bilirubin uptake

- elevated UNCONJUGATED
- fasting and stress
Crigler-Najjer type I
- AR
- absent UDP-glucuronyl transferase; presents early in life
- KErnicterus - pts die
- increase UNCONJUGATED bilirubin

type II less severe = responds to phenobarbital which inc Liver fxn tests
Dubin-Johnson
- CONJUGATED hyperbilirubinemia due to defective liver excretion
- blakc liver
- multidrug resistant protein 2

Rotor's = similar but milder
Wilson's
- AR

TX = Penicillamine
Hemochromatosis
- AR
- HLA-A3
- cirrhosis, Diabetes, skin pigmentation
- results in CHF and inc risk of HCC

Tx = repeated phlebotomy and DEFEROXAMINE
Primary biliary cirrhosis
- autoimmune rxn
- lymphocytic infiltrate + granulomatous destruction of portal triad (CD8)
- inc serum MITOCHONDRIAL ANTIBODY

- assoc. w/ autoimmune conditions
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- concentric "onion skin' bile ducts fibrosis
- alterating strictures and dilation w/ "beading" of intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts on ERCP

- Ulcerative colitis
- Labs = inc IgM (hypergammaglobinemia)
- MCC cholangiocarcinoma
Anit-smooth muscle Ab
autoimmune hepatitis
Causes of Acute pancreatitis
GET SMASHED
Gallstones
Ethanol
Trauma

Steroids
Mumps
Autoimmune disease
Scorpion sting
HyperCalcemia/HyperLIPIDemia
ERCP
Drugs (sulfa drugs)
clinical pancreatitis
- DIC, ARDS
- Pseudocyst = amylase inc after 10 days
Abscess = sepsis, fever

Ascites = pseudocyst leak; fluid inc amylase
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
- CEA
- CA-19-9

- assoc w/ cigarettes and chronic pancreatitis but no EtOH

- Migratory thrombophlebitis
- Obstructive jaundice w/ PALPABLE GALLBLADDER (courvoisier's sign)